Fragment — ShÞ FragIII
Skáldhelgi Þórðarson
Kari Ellen Gade 2017, ‘ Skáldhelgi Þórðarson, Fragment’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 351. <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=1348> (accessed 4 May 2024)
This fragment (
ShÞ Frag) is found only in
742ˣ (main ms.) and
1496ˣ, in a section with
heiti (or, rather, kennings) for ‘wound’ that roughly corresponds to the lists of such
heiti in
LaufE (
LaufE 1979, 303, 391) and RE 1665(Kk3). There is no extant medieval source for these sections (see
LaufE 1979, 303 n.), and neither
LaufE nor RE 1665 includes this couplet (the Y redaction of
LaufE and RE 1665 instead give
Eskál Lv 3/1-4
I as an illustration of such circumlocutions). The fragment is attributed to
Skáldhelgi Þórðarson in both mss.
References
- Bibliography
- LaufE 1979 = Faulkes, Anthony, ed. 1979. Edda Magnúsar Ólafssonar (Laufás Edda). RSÁM 13. Vol. I of Two Versions of Snorra Edda from the 17th Century. Reykjavík: Stofnun Árna Magnússonar, 1977-9.
- Internal references
- Kari Ellen Gade 2022, ‘(Biography of) Skáldhelgi Þórðarson’ in Margaret Clunies Ross and Kari Ellen Gade (eds), Poetry in Sagas of Icelanders. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 5. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 1485.
- Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2012, ‘Einarr skálaglamm Helgason, Lausavísur 3’ in Diana Whaley (ed.), Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 1: From Mythical Times to c. 1035. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 1. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 333.
- (forthcoming), ‘ Unattributed, Laufás Edda’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. . <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=10928> (accessed 4 May 2024)
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